Apple corer and slicer.



A. W. RAND. APPLE GORER AND SLIGER. APPLICATION FILED 0GT.16, 190a.RENEWED NOV.5, 1909.

Patented June 7, 1910.

Amos Rand.

atmuu AMOS W. RAND, OF MONDOVI, WISCONSIN.

APPLE CORER AND SLICER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 7, 1910.

Application filed October 16, 1908, Serial No. 458,052. Renewed November5, 1909. Serial No. 526,472.

. specification.

This invention relates to vegetable and fruit choppers, and moreparticularly to such an instrument adapted especially for removing thecore of an apple and slicing the apple into a plurality of sectionssimultaneously.

Another object is to provide such a device having a handle disposedcentrally thereover, as is most convenient for the manipulation of thedevice, and provided with a means for ejecting cores after being removedfrom fruit, so that the cores will not engage against the handle andthus clog the device.

A most important object of the invention is to provide such a devicewhich may be also used as an ordinary vegetable chopper, or meatchopper, without becoming cloyed. A similar function has been performedby certain apple peelers, and corers, but it is frequently found inthese machines that the slicing and coring operations are not performedsatisfactorily. Also, the pressure required to force the fruit intoengagement with the coring and slicin knives is frequently so great asto resu t in the incomplete performance of the operation by reason ofthe frailty of the fruit.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the followingdescription and it will be understood that changes in the specificstructure shown and described may be made within the scope of the claimwithout departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in whichlike numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views,Figure 1 is a side view of the device, Fig. 2 is a view at right anglesto Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the c evice.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a corer and slicer comprisinga handle 10 carrying a plurality of divergent wire arms 11 bifurcated attheir lower ends and having secured therein the upper edges of aplurality of blades 12. A tubular knife 13 is engaged centrally of theblades 12 and is provided with an integral upwardly extending core guide14: adapted to force cores lat erally as'they ass outwardly through theknife 13, as wil be apparent. The blades 12 and the knife 13 are alladapted to be stamped from sheet material, the blades 11- being securedto the knife 13 and arms 11 by means of solder, though it will beunderstood that any suitable method may be utilized for forming theknife and blades and disposing them u on the handle. The blades 12 areroun ed at their lower outer corners as shown.

It will be seen that the device is readily adapted to use as a vegetablechopper in the manner usual with potato choppers and like implements.

The arms 11 comprise a main shank portion 17 from which there extends adiagonal portion 18 carrying a blade-engaging portion 20 these latterportions on all the arms lying approximately in parallel spacedrelation. The handle is provided with the usual recess in such devices,and the shank portions are disposed concentrically therein, a wedgemember 22 being forced centrally therebetween to hold them againstdisengagement. It will be seen that by the manner of securing the bladesto the arms 11 liability of loosening of the blades therefrom is largelyobviated.

What is claimed is A combined vegetable chopper and apple corercombining a handle portion a plurality of wire arms engaged therein, acircular wedge member concentrically engaged between the arms, said armsbeing divergent and having their lower end portions disposed inapproximately parallel spaced relation, said arms having their lowerends bifurcated, radial blades en aged closely in the bifurcatedportions, sai blades having their lower side edges curved inwardly toform continuations of their base edges, a tubular blade secured to theinner edges of the radial blades, said tubular blade having an integralupwardly extending guide portion inclined thereover, to deflect a corelaterally of the handle.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

AMOS W. RAND.

